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Special Weather Statement, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this special weather statement at Aug 24, 2012, 6:21 PM CDT for Gray County, Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 24, 2012, 6:21 PM CDT (23:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2012, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
Counties Gray County, KS, Meade County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 64 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 303 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -200 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 708 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 332 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WWUS83 KDDC 242321
SPSDDC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
621 PM CDT FRI AUG 24 2012
KSZ063-064-076>078-086-087-250000-
FINNEY-FORD-GRAY-HASKELL-HODGEMAN-MEADE-SEWARD-
621 PM CDT FRI AUG 24 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN HASKELL...EASTERN
SEWARD...GRAY...NORTHWESTERN MEADE...SOUTHEASTERN FINNEY...
SOUTHWESTERN HODGEMAN AND WESTERN FORD COUNTIES...
AT 616 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES NORTH OF
CHARLESTON TO 7 MILES EAST OF HAYNE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
WINDS AROUND 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
LAT...LON 3724 10078 3768 10074 3802 10068 3823 10016
3771 10013 3751 10016 3717 10027 3699 10073
3699 10079
TIME...MOT...LOC 2320Z 243DEG 20KT 3798 10056 3774 10055
3755 10054 3735 10056 3710 10065
$$
WAHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 7:00 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | DDC | Trego | 6 days |
| Aug 24, 3:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stanton | 43 min |
| Aug 24, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stanton | 34 min |
| Aug 24, 4:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Grant | 44 min |
| Aug 24, 4:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Stanton | 31 min |
| Aug 24, 4:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Lane, Scott | 46 min |
| Aug 24, 6:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | DDC | Gray, Meade | 47 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.